Obama tops news stories since 2000: Survey

Citations of Obama in global print and electronic media, on Internet, and throughout blogosphere was more than double the other main stories of the last decade combined.

Barack Obama’s election to the White House has topped all major news stories in global media since 2000, according to a latest research.

The analysis by Global Language Monitor (GLM) says that citations of Obama in the global print and electronic media, on the Internet, and throughout the blogosphere was more than double the other main stories of the last decade combined.

These include the Iraq War, the Beijing Olympics, the financial Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the death of Pope John Paul II, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Tsunami.

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“The historical confluence of events in 2008 is unprecedented. Aside from Obama’s election, we witnessed the financial tsunami, which appears to be a vast restructuring of the world economic order, and the Beijing Olympics, which can be viewed as the unofficial welcoming of China into the world community as a nation of the first rank,” says Paul JJ Payack, President and Chief word analyst of GLM.

“This lends some credence to the idea that on January 20, 2009 we are about to embark on the second decade of the second millennium,” Payack says.

The stories were measured in the print and electronic media for a one-year period after the event.

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